“Metallic Taste”, Show Me the Body’s most known track off Body War, features lyrics dealing deeply with the struggles of growing up, moving out on your own, financial worries, and the mundane everyday bullshit of adulthood we all are required to endure.
[Verse 1]
Bad town burn down outta sight
New rent get spent, no wrong or right
Roll around the blue lights
You could see melting ice
Neighbors found 'em leaking out the other night
Coulda hit him when he tried to write
Pig billy club or the lead pipe
Grow out in the east, learned to eat and fight
Read and sight death stares that keep me up at night
[Chorus]
Tryna roll away
New space, new blade, it’s the same thing
Happen like it did out in Rockaway
I still say, when I hit the grave
Sailors moving on his next wage
The next blade cut deep
Metallic taste, metallic ways, getting beat back in the day
But shit has changed, type pentagrade instead of graves
They got me thinking 'bout my next wage
[Verse 2]
And I’m leaning with the blade again
Stuck losing friends, buck teeth sinking in
My dad said, "Shit is bad, don’t get better than shit's been"
He prolly right, bet it keep him up at night
Covered in the ash, I hopped a green board
I cut both hands and they still sore
From rolling through this mosh pit too hard
Arms and the body parts coming out the top floor
[Chorus]
I'm tryna roll away
New space, new blade, it’s the same thing
Happen like it did out in Rockaway
Still say, when I hit the grave
Sailors moving on his next wage
The next blade cut deep
Metallic taste, metallic ways, getting beat back in the day
But shit has changed, type pentagrade instead of graves
They got me thinking 'bout my next wage
[Outro]
Sirens shining in, it's so inspiring (Cut deep)
They got me thinking 'bout my next wage
Sirens shining in, it's so inspiring
They knife sharpening (Cut deep)
Sirens shining in, it's so inspiring (Cut deep)
Got me thinking 'bout my next wage
It's so inspiring, the knives sharpening
The sirens shining in
Metallic Taste was written by Julian Cashwan Pratt & Harlan Steed & Noah Cohen-Corbett.
Metallic Taste was produced by Gabriel Millman (producer) & Julian Cashwan Pratt & Harlan Steed & Noah Cohen-Corbett.
Show Me the Body released Metallic Taste on Thu Jun 16 2016.